CALIFORNIA—
Acting U.S. Attorney Michele Beckwith announced July 7 that a California man was sentenced to 30 months in prison for making violent threats across state lines.
Cedar Sky Montgomery, 45, of Calaveras County used a cellphone and the internet to make threats to multiple victims, according to court documents.
In one instance, he threatened to kill a victim and have the victim “watch members of your family hanging from trees while your famil[y’]s Houses Burn to ground … .”
On another occasion, Montgomery sent text and multimedia messages that threatened to kill a second victim and that victim’s brother, specifically threatening to “kill as many members of your family as I can find!”
He also told the second victim that he would cut the victim’s fingers and hands “off your physical body.”
With a third victim, Montgomery sent threatening voicemail messages saying, “the bomb maker is going to kill everybody in your [expletive] family, I’m going to burn your property down, I’m going to slit your [expletive] throat and I’m going to kill everybody in your family.”
Montgomery sent hundreds of messages threatening to dismember a 4th victim
Between November 2023 and January 2024, Montgomery repeatedly called and sent hundreds of unwanted messages to a fourth victim.
He also sent obscene images and threatened to find the victim and kill their partner.
Montgomery sent hundreds of messages, angry voicemails, and graphic images, threatening to find and dismember the victim.
